Philip Coppens (chemist)

{{Short description|Dutch-born American chemist and crystallographer}}

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| name = Philip Coppens

| image = Signed portrait of Philip Coppens.jpg

| caption = Signed portrait, 1978

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1930|10|24}}

| birth_place = Amersfoort, the Netherlands

| death_date = {{death_date_and_age|2017|06|21 |1930|10|24}}

| death_place = West Grove, Pennsylvania, USA{{Cite journal |last=Linda Wang |date=2017-08-07 |title=Obituary: Philip Coppens |journal=C&EN Global Enterprise |language=en |volume=95 |issue=32 |pages=36 |doi=10.1021/cen-09532-peopobits1 |issn=2474-7408|doi-access=free }}

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| alma_mater = University of Amsterdam

| occupation = Chemist and crystallographer

| workplaces = Brookhaven National Laboratory
University at Buffalo

| doctoral_advisor = Carolina MacGillavry

| academic_advisors = Gerhard Schmidt

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| known_for = Charge density analysis

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Philip Coppens (October 24, 1930 – June 21, 2017){{cite web|author=Ellen Goldbaum |url=http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2017/06/031.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707083117/http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2017/06/031.html |title=SUNY Distinguished Professor Philip Coppens has died |publisher=University at Buffalo |date=June 23, 2017 |archive-date=July 7, 2017 }} was a Dutch-born American chemist and crystallographer known for his work on charge density analysis using X-rays crystallography{{Cite web |last=Payne |first=Robin |title=Philip Coppens |url=https://history.amercrystalassn.org/h_coppens_memoir |access-date=2022-08-16 |website=history.amercrystalassn.org |language=en-us}} and the pioneering work in the field of photocrystallography.{{Cite journal |last=Coppens |first=Philip |date=2017-02-01 |title=The dramatic development of X-ray photocrystallography over the past six decades |journal=Structural Dynamics |language=en |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=032102 |doi=10.1063/1.4975301 |issn=2329-7778 |pmc=5291789 |pmid=28191481}}

Education and career

The Amersfoort-born Coppens received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Amsterdam in 1954 and 1960, where he was supervised by Carolina MacGillavry. In 1968, following appointments at the Weizmann Institute and Brookhaven National Laboratory, he was appointed in the chemistry department at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was a SUNY Distinguished Professor and holder of the Henry M. Woodburn Chair of Chemistry. Among the many 3-dimensional structures Coppens characterized is the nitroprusside ion.{{cite journal|doi=10.1021/cr000031c | volume=102 | issue=4 | title=Photoinduced Linkage Isomers of Transition-Metal Nitrosyl Compounds and Related Complexes | journal=Chemical Reviews | pages=861–884 | last1 = Coppens | first1 = Philip| year=2002 | pmid=11942781 }}

Honours and awards

Coppens was a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1979{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/correspondents/3994 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100654/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/correspondents/3994 |title=P. Coppens |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |date= |accessdate=17 July 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016}} and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 1993.{{cite news |last1=Goldbaum |first1=Ellen |title=Coppens Named Fellow of AAAS |url=https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/1993/12/3333.html |access-date=May 9, 2022 |publisher=University at Buffalo |date=December 3, 1993}} Additionally, he was awarded the Gregori Aminoff Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1996, the Ewald Prize of the International Union of Crystallography in 2005,[http://www.iucr.org/iucr/ewald-prize/ewald07 The Ewald Prize], 2005 and Kołos Medal in 2013.

Bibliography

{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/256278163 |title=Proceedings of the Symposium on "Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Electron Densities" at University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 4-5, 1972 |date=1972 |publisher=Polycrystal Book Service |editor-last=Coppens |editor-first=Philip |location=Pittsburgh, Pa. |language=English |oclc=256278163}}
{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/865271066 |title=Electron distributions and the chemical bond |date=1982 |publisher=Plenum Press |isbn=978-0-306-41000-0 |editor-last=Coppens |editor-first=Philip |location=New York |language=English |oclc=865271066 |editor-last2=Hall |editor-first2=Michael B}}
{{Cite book |last1=Coppens |first1=Philip |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/468470415 |title=Synchrotron radiation crystallography |last2=Cox |first2=David |last3=Vlieg |first3=Elias |last4=Robinson |first4=Ian K |date=1992 |publisher=Academic Press |isbn=978-0-12-188080-4 |location=London; San Diego; New York |language=English |oclc=468470415}}
{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/468309233 |title=Superconductivity and its applications: Buffalo, NY 1990 |date=1991 |publisher=American Institute of physics |isbn=978-0-88318-835-4 |editor-last=Kao |editor-first=Yi-Han |location=New York |language=English |oclc=468309233 |editor-last2=Kwok |editor-first2=Hoi-Sing |editor-last3=Coppens |editor-first3=Philip}}
{{Cite book |last=Coppens |first=Philip |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/845312646 |title=X-ray charge densities and chemical bonding |date=1997 |publisher=Oxford Univ. Press |isbn=978-0-19-509823-5 |location=Oxford |language=English |oclc=845312646}}

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20120826180144/http://www.chemistry.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/coppens/ Official website]
[https://archive.today/20130416103019/http://www.yalerigakusymposium.org/coppens.html Biographical sketch], Yale University

Category:1930 births

Category:2017 deaths

Category:21st-century American chemists

Category:20th-century Dutch chemists

Category:Dutch emigrants to the United States

Category:American crystallographers

Category:Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Category:University of Amsterdam alumni

Category:University at Buffalo faculty

Category:People from Amersfoort

Category:Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Category:Presidents of the American Crystallographic Association